Turn Any Pot Into a Sous Vide With This Portable Gadget

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Turn Any Pot Into a Sous Vide With This Portable Gadget

Drop it in the pot for foodie foods. Photo: Nomiku

Being a foodie is expensive. Mashing up quail eggs with caramelized tuna can get pricey, indeed. But now one company is hoping to lower the price of one of the most expensive pieces of foodie cookware. And it's aiming for true portability, too.

The Nomiku is a portable sous vide that turns any pot into a slow-cooking water bath. The immersion circulator attaches to the side of any pot, and warms and swishes your water just like those high-priced sous vide machines already on the market.

The sous vide method entails cooking food items over a very long period of time – from hours to days – in order to seal in flavor. Chefs put food inside a sealable pouch, remove the excess air, and then drop the pouch into a sous vide water bath. A few hours or days later, a delicious meal. For meat, the process creates a tenderer cut, but sous vide is also used for fish and vegetables.

In addition to portability, the Nomiku also has a simple interface. Push the button to turn it on, and turn the dial to select the required temperature. Unlike higher-end models, the Nomiku must be manually turned off. But with sous vide cooking times set between hours and days, letting the device run for an extra 45 minutes isn't that big of a deal.

The Nomiku also solves the storage issues that come with purchasing a piece of kitchen hardware that does one thing, and one thing only. By making any pot in the house a sous vide with a portable device that can be stored in cabinet, the Nomiku could be a great addition to a foodie kitchen. A $300 investment to the Kickstarter project will get you a Nomiku when they launch.